These organizers just won big in Virginia. They’re coming for your state next.

Since 2008, Democrats nationwide have been hemorrhaging state legislature seats, and dressing their open wounds with tiny Hello Kitty bandaids.

It was bad.

After Trump’s election, a group of former Clinton organizers decided to form a new startup, Flippable, dedicated to breaking Republican supermajorities and winning some of these states back. State politics isn’t exactly romantic  — think of how many of your former Assembly members you can name — and Democrats haven’t had a successful track record in the area in a long time.

Almost a year later, Flippable appears to have started to, well, flip that trend. On Tuesday, the group said they won 16 out of 20 races on which they worked.  Read more…

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